Rome is a blockbuster European city break. Nothing makes you feel like a blip in time quite like a stay in the Eternal City ...

You would be surprised at how many famous landmarks in Barcelona you can see in just a few days. As many people embark or ...

The ancient Greeks used to make a wide variety of breads, as they considered it to be of great importance in their eating habits.

An English woman in the small village of Whiteparish had been using this slab as a stepping stone in her garden for almost a ...

A discovery underneath the basement of an office block has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman ...

Pyramids are arguably some of the most impressive structures left behind by our ancient ancestors. Not only is it hard … ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 as the feast day of a St. Valentine, who had been martyred about 200 years ...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb that is richly decorated with wall paintings.

The Capitoline Museums in Rome have just today opened an exhibition exploring the history of The Farnese in sixteenth-century Rome. The show draws together one hundred and forty masterpieces including ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

The Ancient Graffiti Project, a research team that has included around 70 people over the past several years to locate and study graffiti from the early Roman Empire, has painstakingly documented and ...